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How much grain a horse is given depends very little on his weight. It is mostly based on his work load. Moderate to lightly worked horses will generally be just fine as long as they always have access to grass, hay, water and mineral and salt blocks, with some exceptions for horses with special needs who may need more or less. Horses with a heavier workload, pregnant mares, nursing mares, etc. will normally need some grain and maybe some supplements in their feed as well as grass, grass hay, maybe some alfalfa for protein, water and mineral and salt blocks.
A horse in a heavy workload is ridden at least 4 or 5 times a week and works up a good sweat most, if not every, time. Moderate is ridden about 3+ times and rarely works up a big sweat, while light work they almost never get into a sweat.
Horses with special needs may be hard keepers, who lose weight easily and therefore need grain to keep weight on them, easy keepers who gain weight easily and need to be monitored in food take, not allowed free-choice or they will eat themselves fat, and old horses who often cannot chew grass well enough to get all the necessary nutrients to stay healthy, along with a few other cases.
To see what your horse needs, grain often has something that tells you how much your horse needs, or to be even better, you can get a professional horse nutritionist to see what to feed your horse to keep him in the best possible shape.
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How much exercise does a 1000 pound horse need?
none, its probably dead
Can a horse die if another horse steps on its head?
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Feeding by a flake and quart or scoop method is very incorrect and can cause weight and health problems in horses. A horse should be fed based on it's body weight, typically 1.5% to 3% of it's bodyweight. The horses height really plays no part in assessing the amount of food the horse needs. As an example a 1000 pound horse would need 15 to 30 pounds of food a day (1.5% to 3%). The majority of it should be forage such as hay or grass and if the horse needs the extra calories, then a grain or pelleted feed can be added.
How much food in weight will 100 horses that work eat a day?
Well this will vary according to the work being done and the weight of the horse. I'll use an average 1200 pound horse. So feeding at a rate of 2.5% bodyweight a 1200 pound horse needs 30 pounds of food daily. Now comes the fun part, figuring out how much is fed based on work load. A lightly worked horse typically only needs hay so 100 horses eating 30 pounds eat = 3,000 pounds a day. For a horse in moderate work (Basically anything other than endurance, eventing, and racing) then the horse will need supplemental grain or pellets. So about 5 pounds is roughly average grain wise so that makes 25 pounds of hay and 5 pounds of grain totaling 2500 pounds of hay and 500 pounds of grain a day for 100 horses in moderate work. Now for horses in heavy work the pounds of grain may jump to around 10 so that's 20 pounds hay 10 pounds grain, that totals 2000 pounds of hay and 1000 pounds of grain in one day. But keep in mind that not all horses can or will eat the exact same amount of feed as another horse, so actual numbers may vary a bit.
How much is a 1000 grain silver bar worth?
well 1000 grain is 2.8 rough estimate of 1000 grain so around 70 dollars to sell making a 5 through 7 dollar profit
What did a horses heart look like?
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Is there 1000 pennies in a pound?
Nope - there are only 100 pennies in a pound.
Is a pile of rocks or a stack of lumbar or a dime or a grain of sugar likely to have a mass of about 1 milligram?
1 milligram = 1/1000 of a gram. Very roughly, 29 grams in 1 ounce, so very roughly 464,000 milligrams in 1 pound. From the list you gave, it has to be the grain of sugar.
Which is heavier a kilogram or a poud?
pound is heavier....as 1 pound=1000 kilograms
What is the average resistance of a 150 pound man according to ieee?
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